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I want to transfer my old 8mm movies into DVD. I captured one using PowerVCR
II in my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. Although Sonic MyDVD and WMPlayer 10
can both play it with no problem, WMM cannot. It posts an error message
(something like "an interface has too many ways to produce an event"). Going
through PapaJohn's website (BTW, wonderful and tremendously helpful site!
thanks a lot PapaJohn) I came to realize that it is a matter of the format.
I'm capturing videos as MPEG2, and WMM won't read them, so to speak. So I
followed what PapaJohn says in his Newsletter # 50 on how to convert them
into AVI files. Downloaded GSpot, VDubMod, and PanasonicDVcodec. But when I
tried to open the file with VDubMod, it wouldn't, and an error message came
up: "MPEG Import filter: invalid pack at position 3: marker bit not set;
possibly MPEG-2 stream." I then went to GSpot to render it (whatever that
is). I won't transcribe the whole output of GSpot now (I have it at hand,
though), suffice to say that the Status came up as "Rendering successful",
and the first line of the log says: "DirectShow claims to be able to play the
file", again, whatever that means.
I tried to use VDubMod with another file, one I had no problems with as it
was captured by WMM, and it worked as in a textbook: resizing, selecting
PanasonicDV codec, saving, viewing, etc. Then again, I understand that WMM
is not your first choice to capture analog videos, right?
Any insight?
II in my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. Although Sonic MyDVD and WMPlayer 10
can both play it with no problem, WMM cannot. It posts an error message
(something like "an interface has too many ways to produce an event"). Going
through PapaJohn's website (BTW, wonderful and tremendously helpful site!
thanks a lot PapaJohn) I came to realize that it is a matter of the format.
I'm capturing videos as MPEG2, and WMM won't read them, so to speak. So I
followed what PapaJohn says in his Newsletter # 50 on how to convert them
into AVI files. Downloaded GSpot, VDubMod, and PanasonicDVcodec. But when I
tried to open the file with VDubMod, it wouldn't, and an error message came
up: "MPEG Import filter: invalid pack at position 3: marker bit not set;
possibly MPEG-2 stream." I then went to GSpot to render it (whatever that
is). I won't transcribe the whole output of GSpot now (I have it at hand,
though), suffice to say that the Status came up as "Rendering successful",
and the first line of the log says: "DirectShow claims to be able to play the
file", again, whatever that means.
I tried to use VDubMod with another file, one I had no problems with as it
was captured by WMM, and it worked as in a textbook: resizing, selecting
PanasonicDV codec, saving, viewing, etc. Then again, I understand that WMM
is not your first choice to capture analog videos, right?
Any insight?